The Friendly Orange Glow by Bryan Deer

Plato was a computer based education network that connected people around the world, but existed decades before the modern internet. Students used individual terminals, each of which was connected to a central main frame. Plater was born at the university of illinois, conceived as a book with feedback. The displays show little more than text and fairly rudimentary images,. But they brought people together, first locally in the us, and later globally - offering a glimpse of what to come.